Dolby E Technology Used In Digital Projection Screening Of ""Dogma""

Dolby Laboratories' Dolby E encoder and decoder were used for the first time in a digital cinema setting for the Digital Projection Inc. screening of the new Lion's Gate film ""Dogma"" at the annual ShowEast convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Dolby engineers supervised the sound transfer necessary from film to digital at Tapehouse in New York. The Dolby E 571 encoder was used for the six-channel encoding, and the Dolby E 572 decoder was employed at the Xanadu Theatre at Trump's Taj Mahal (Atlantic City), in conjunction with a Dolby CP500 cinema processor for 5.1 auditorium playback.""Dolby's expertise in digital sound formats is what made the audio work,"" said Chuck Collins of Digital Projection.In addition to supervising the sound transfer, Dolby provided the set-up and tuning of the Xanadu Theatre, including the amplification and speaker systems.Dolby E is designed to ease the transition from two-channel to multichannel audio. The DP571 Dolby E encoder and DP572 Dolby E decoder enable producers and broadcasters to distribute up to eight channels of high-quality audio, as well as Dolby Digital metadata, via a single AES/EBU pair, two audio tracks of a digital video tape, digital audio tape, or video server.Designed to accommodate standard broadcast operations, Dolby E can tolerate without degradation ten tandem encode/decode cycles as sometimes required during the contribution, post-production, and distribution stages of a DTV program. In addition, Dolby E technology audio frame rates match video frame rates, enabling precise video picture cuts without mutes, glitches, or restrictions.